Mozambique: Sasol hands over vocational training facilities to Estrela do Mar School in Inhassoro – Photos

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Mozambique: Sasol hands over vocational training facilities to Estrela do Mar School in Inhassoro – Photos

12:48 CAT | 21 Dec 2022

Photo: Sasol

On 24 November 2022, Sasol handed over vocational training facilities to Escola Industrial e Comercial Estrela do Mar in Inhassoro. These are the temporary facilities where, since 2015, the Inhassoro Vocational Training Centre (CFPI) operated, which, from 22 November, began operating in its new facilities funded by Sasol.

At a cost of around US$483,000, the facilities delivered were funded by Sasol on land temporarily ceded by the beneficiary school, and contain 3 container-type classrooms, support service facilities and a multifunctional workshop with training equipment in electricity, mechanics, and welding.

Over the last 7 years, the CFPI has operated in these provisional facilities, while its definitive facilities were under construction, and it was here that 483 youths from the Govuro, Inhassoro, Vilankulo, Mabote and Massinga districts were trained, with total Sasol funding.

As well as returning the land with all its improvements, Sasol also contributed US$1.3 million to the extension of the buildings of the Estrela do Mar Industrial and Commercial School, with the works having been completed and delivered in 2018.

The Director General of the Estrela do Mar school, Jeremias Moisés, thanked Sasol for honouring the memorandum of understanding and acknowledged the impact of Sasol’s social responsibility initiatives in education, and promised to make good use of the facilities for the practical classes of the school he heads.

According to Mateus Mosse, Sasol’s Senior Manager Corporate Affairs, Sasol’s investment in vocational training aims to create opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship, especially for young people in the northern districts of Inhambane.

For Cénia Maela, Provincial Delegate of the Alberto Cassimo Vocational Training and Labour Studies Institute (IFPELAC) in Inhambane province, thanked the Estrela do Mar Industrial and Commercial School for the good coexistence and collaboration that the two entities of technical and vocational education had during the time that the CFPI was operating there.

On 22 November 2022, the President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, inaugurated the new CFPI facilities. Built by Sasol, the new CFPI facilities comprise 5 classrooms, 3 workshops for practical lessons in mechanics, electricity and industrial welding, a playing field, an administrative block, and a residential block composed of 6 houses for the trainers.

Source: Sasol Mozambique / Media Release